Friday, December 31, 2010
UNC-Chapel Hill / ACC / Women's Basketball / Basketball Lucas' hot shooting paces Tar Heels in easy road victory
Posted by Mike Potter on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:22 PM
UNC will finish the 2010 part of this women’s basketball season unscathed.
- Photo courtesy UNC athletics
- UNC guard Italee Lucas
The Tar Heels led the Bulldogs (8-5) 54-32 at halftime. Lucas hit five of six 3-point attempts to lead three UNC players in double figures
Chay Shegog added 16 points while Jessica Breland had 14 for UNC, which got 15 assists from Cetera DeGraffenreid.
N.C. State / ACC / Women's Basketball / Basketball Surprise! Wolfpack will host Elizabeth City State on Sunday
Posted by Mike Potter on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:00 PM
N.C. State has announced the scheduling of an additional women’s basketball game.
- Photo courtesy NCSU athletics
- N.C. State coach Kellie Harper
Admission will be free to the general public.
NCSU, which last played on Dec. 21 and wouldn’t have played again until its ACC opener against visiting Clemson on Thursday night, is 7-6 and on a three-game winning streak.
ECSU (7-2), which otherwise would not have played between Dec. 21 and its CIAA opener with Livingstone on Thursday night, has won seven straight.
UNC-Chapel Hill / ACC / Women's Basketball / Basketball Tar Heels finish 2010 with rare trip to Gardner-Webb today
Posted by Mike Potter on Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:53 AM
Women’s basketball fans in Cleveland county will get a rare treat today when No. 10 UNC visits Gardner-Webb for the first time.
- Photo courtesy UNC athletics
- UNC forward Jessica Breland
The senior trio of Italee Lucas, Jessica Breland and Cetera DeGraffenreid leads the Tar Heels in the major statistical categories.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
UNC-Chapel Hill / ACC / Football Tar Heels get a late reprieve, then Barth's kick beats Tennessee in Nashville
Posted by Mike Potter on Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:00 PM
TV/ESPN—Casey Barth hit a last-second 40-yard field goal to force overtime, and then connected with a chip shot in the second overtime as UNC topped Tennessee 30-27 in the Music City Bowl on Thursday night.
- Photo courtesy UNC athletics
- UNC kicker Casey Barth
T.J. Yates went in from a yard out and Barth added the try for a 27-20 lead, before Tennessee’s Tyler Bray helped tie it with his fourth TD pass of the night — a 20-yard connection to Luke Stocker with Chad Cunningham adding the boot.
Tennessee’s next possession ended when Quan Sturdivant picked off a Bray pass, and then Barth nailed the 23-yarder to end it.
Duke / ACC / Women's Basketball / Basketball Christmas, Selby spark Blue Devils' win over pesky Temple
Posted by Mike Potter on Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:02 PM
CAMERON INDOOR STADIUM/DURHAM Duke comes home after a nine-day break, looking to keep the momentum going in the week before ACC play begins.
- Photo courtesy Duke athletics
- Duke guard Shay Selby
Tonight’s opponent is Atlantic 10 member Temple (7-5), which has won five of its last six games but is 0-5 all-time against the Blue Devils.
Duke has won 38 straight December home games heading into the contest.
And the Blue Devils keep the streak safe for another year at 39, but not before having to survive a 71-64 grinder.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Hockey / Carolina Hurricanes Ward stifles Ottawa as Canes take second straight
Posted by Chris Vitiello on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:51 PM
TV/ FS-CR—I wonder, at what point did the Ottawa Senators realize they weren't going to score on Cam Ward on Wednesday night?
- File photo by Rob Rowe
- Cam Ward shut out the Ottawa Senators 4-0 Wednesday night.
If not then, then certainly it was midway through the third, when Filip Kuba stung Peter Regin's saucer pass through the crease as Ward was in motion across the goalmouth, and Ward batted the puck calmly to the corner. All these were among the 37 shots that Ward turned away with one body part or another en route to a 4-0 win in Canada's capital city.
Duke / N.C. State / ACC / Women's Basketball / Basketball Duke back in action tonight against Temple, Wolfpack has to cancel game
Posted by Mike Potter on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:32 PM
Duke returns to action in women’s basketball for the first time in nine days Thursday night, hosting Temple at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Photo courtesy Duke athletics
- Duke guard Jasmine Thomas
Temple is coming off a 65-56 loss nine days ago at Eastern Michigan that snapped the Owls’ five-game winning streak.
The Blue Devils, who have won 38 straight December home games, lead the all-time series 5-0.
NCSU-Fairfield canceled
In other ACC women’s basketball news, N.C. State’s game against Fairfield, which was unable to get a flight to Raleigh for a Tuesday meeting, was canceled. The Wolfpack’s next game will be its ACC opener on Jan. 6 against visiting Clemson.
UNC-Chapel Hill / ACC / Football Tar Heels hoping to end season on good note with bowl victory over Tennessee
Posted by Mike Potter on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:21 PM
UNC will be hoping to end a messy season on a high note, looking to knock off Tennessee in the Music City Bowl in Nashville on Thursday night.
- Photo courtesy UNC athletics
- UNC quarterback T.J. Yates
But Davis and his team — in large part because of the stellar play of once-maligned quarterback T.J. Yates — managed to hold things together well enough to get a winning season, getting highlight victories over East Carolina, Clemson, Virginia and Florida State along the way.
Even in the bowl game the Tar Heels will be without top running back senior Anthony Elzy, who is on an internal suspension for disciplinary reasons.
UNC-Chapel Hill / ACC / Basketball Tar Heels crush Rutgers in New York
Posted by Rob Harrington on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Indy File Photo
- Williams continues to say UNC must shoot better
Playing in Madison Square Garden, the Tar Heels dominated the Scarlet Knights from the opening tip and breezed to the finish line with a 78-55 victory. Rutgers definitely is no powerhouse, but this was an important win because UNC improved its record against major-conference opponents to 2-4 on the season.
But back to that shooting. The Heels hit 57 percent from the floor in the first half, before going cold during garbage time and shooting 47 percent total in the game. Even better, the Heels knocked down 48 percent of their three-point attempts.
From an individual perspective, the most encouraging aspect of the contest was the play of sophomore wing Leslie McDonald, who prior to this point had shot extremely poorly against UNC’s better opponents. Versus Rutgers, he drilled 5-for-9 from the field and 4-for-7 on three-pointers for a total of 14 points in 16 minutes.
Hockey / Carolina Hurricanes Canes snap losing skid in Toronto
Posted by Chris Vitiello on Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:14 AM
ACC CENTER, TORONTO — A team is supposed to beat the teams beneath them in the standings, and the Hurricanes did. But they almost beat themselves, too.
- File photo by Rob Rowe
- Cam Ward stopped 34 shots in a 4-3 win in Toronto Tuesday night.
The Maple Leafs had every excuse to phone this game in. Only arriving back in Toronto on Tuesday morning, the Leafs players sat on a Newark airport tarmac and then a bus for five hours each because of a snowstorm that socked in much of the northeastern United States. Yet their legs seemed to have more jump in them than the Canes' did. Carolina held leads of 1-0, 2-1, and 3-2, but each time the Leafs answered, usually because the Canes were standing around in their own zone as if it were a snowy bus stop.
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